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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

Poems of Sentiment: II. Life

My Quaker Grandmothers

Oliver Huckel (1864–1940)

LIKE two little doves in gray

On the boughs of a greenwood tree,

My two Quaker grandmothers sit

In my gay genealogy.

The Cavalier struts in my heart,

The Puritan tugs at my will,

But the Quaker faces say “Peace,”

And passion and pride are still.

Dear faces of infinite calm,

Ye have wrought a spell in my blood

That maketh the world seem wise

And sweet with the sunshine of God.